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I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher.

Bill Mollison

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We’re only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
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Growing Kitchen Looks
There are only four things in all cleaners – whether it’s shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and they all work. It doesn’t matter if they call the stuff ecologically friendly or have dolphins diving around on the label.

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There are only four things in all cleaners – whether it’s shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and they all work. It doesn’t matter if they call the stuff ecologically friendly or have dolphins diving around on the label.
BILL MOLLISON

Blue Color Detergent Label Smell Toilet
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living.
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Creating Renewal Urban
There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
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Wasting
If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

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If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.
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One Rainwater Thing
I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

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I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they’re all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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Bobby Vee
BOBBY VEE
If you let the world roll on the way it’s rolling, you’re voting for death. I’m not voting for death.
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Rolling Voting
The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.
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Agriculture Poison
You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.
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Ducks Permaculture
We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

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We don’t have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.
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Needs Oil
It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.
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Community
Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.

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Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
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Errors Order
Pollution is an unused resource.
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Pollution Resources Unused
The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, “Permaculture Two is a seditious book.” And I said, “At last someone understands what permaculture’s about.”
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Years

I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher.

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